{"id":255950,"date":"2014-07-10T16:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=255950"},"modified":"2014-07-10T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:15:51","slug":"armenian-prosecutor-general-refused-to-meet-with-relatives-of-former-official-accused-of-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/10\/armenian-prosecutor-general-refused-to-meet-with-relatives-of-former-official-accused-of-bribery.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Prosecutor General Refused to Meet with Relatives of Former Official Accused of Bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian General Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan refused to meet with Sahak Harutyunyan&#39;s relatives protesting outside and personally accept their letter, Harutyunyan&#39;s wife, Elza Sahakyan, informed Epress.am<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, Armenian Ministry of Justice employees Sahak Harutyunyan and Aleksander Khachatryan are accused of extorting a bribe of 400,000 AMD (a little less than $1,000 USD) from the victim. The charge was compiled based on the victim&#39;s testimony, but he later said in court that he testified against Sahak Harutyunyan upon the request of investigators.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEmployees at the prosecutor&#39;s office said that Deputy Prosecutor General Hrach Badalyan could&#39;ve met with them; however, he is on vacation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn any case, Harutyunyan&#39;s relatives said that they delivered to the prosecutor&#39;s office facts and videos which prove that the accusation is unfounded and fabricated, compiled on the basis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/09\/bribery-case-victim-changed-testimony-several-times-under-police-pressure-lawyer.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>victim&#39;s ever-changing testimony<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, according to the defense, the victim testified against Harutyunyan under pressure and after being tortured by police; while in court, he said that Harutyunyan never asked him for money.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian General Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan refused to meet with Sahak Harutyunyan&#8217;s relatives protesting outside and personally accept their letter&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56783,55025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}